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Sahade, Marcel Victor

JurisdictionAustralia — New South Wales
BodyOffice of the Legal Services Commissioner (NSW) (OLSC)
Professionbarrister — Sydney Chambers
Case number[2005] NSWADT 159
Date13-Jul-2005
HearingLegal Services Division of the Administrative Decisions Tribunal
OutcomeCosts Fine Reprimand 08/02/2006 Disciplinary Action) $10,000.00

Allegation / charges

<p>1. In July and August 1999 Marcel Victor Sahade lodged 353 applications to pre-register for shares in the so-called ?Telstra 2 Share Offer? using dishonest tricks and devices for the purpose of concealing the fact that the applications were multiple applications by a single person, in circumstances where he believed the policy of the Commonwealth would be likely to be to reject multiple applications for pre-registration from the same person.</p><p><br></p><p>2. Between about 17 and 19 September 1999, Marcel Victor Sahade lodged 215 applications, each for 400 shares in the ?Telstra 2 Share Offer?, as a pre-registered public applicant, using dishonest tricks and devices for the purpose of concealing the fact that the applications were multiple applications by a single person.</p> — Professional Misconduct

Findings — machine-extracted (anthropic-batch:claude-opus-4-8); verify against the decision

SanctionOther
Dishonesty foundYes

Marcel Victor Sahade lodged hundreds of applications (353 pre-registrations in July/August 1999 and 215 share applications in September 1999) for the Telstra 2 Share Offer using dishonest tricks and devices to conceal that they were multiple applications by a single person, contrary to the expected policy against multiple applications. This was found to constitute professional misconduct involving dishonesty. The provided excerpt does not state the sanction imposed.

Duties found breached:

⚠ figures not found verbatim in the source were dropped: ["extracted_from_register_summary"]

Duties engaged

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